Picked up a 1918 Erfurt Luger. Did I do well?

[m0ondoggy]

Originally Posted by lugerholsterrepair

Steve, Will the pistol fire? It looks like your trigger is severly bent.

Jerry Burney

I haven't tried shooting it, I was going to let my dad take the first shots out of it. I'm going to give it a thorough cleaning today. It does dry fire though, although I'm not in the habit of repeatedly dry firing 92 year old guns. I didn't notice that about the trigger, I'll go pull it out of the safe and double check it. Excellent advice on the extractor, I'll definitely get one of those too.

I was planning on having the front sight cut off; replaced with a nice dovetail. The rear sight I would probably mill down and replace with an XS peep sight. I think a nice Tenifer coating on the gun would be a plus too.


LOL, j/k. I'm a purist when it comes to most guns, Unless a part is broken I won't replace it, and if I do have to I try to find a correct part. Especially on something like this. Lugers are just neat.

Guess I need to find one for myself now.